I don't see Debian biting on any of this. It always seemed to me that Debian was about stability and doing their own thing. Not success, not cutting edge, not involvement with the prop software world.

I think, or maybe I've been out of the Debian loop for too many years, that this is going to fall on deaf ears. I never thought Debian devs cared much about success and market share or competition. But instead a quality stable product created in ways that Debian collectively sees fit.